Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

A gathering of the employes of the public printing office at Washington for the purpose of bidding farewell to 8. P. Rounds was cut short by tlio sudden death of Captain Otto Leissring. The Land Office has received news of the seizure by Government agents of timber which enterprising Canadians were cutting south of the forty-ninth parallel. President Cleveland, his wife, Mrs. Folsom and Colonel and Mrs. Lamont reached Washington Wednesday, Sept. 23. Colonel Lamont announced to the newspaper men that the President had said he was glad to get back. Col. Hugh D. Gallagher, of Greenshurg, Ind., has been appointed Indian Agent at the Pine Ridgo Agency in Dakota. He succeeds Dr. McGillicuddy. Washington officials deny the reports of negotiations between Great Brita'n and the United States for a new Canadian treaty. Commissioner of Pensions Black’s report shows that there are 305,783 pensioners on the rolls, there being 1,539 survivors of tho war of 1812, and 13,397 widows of the soldiers of that war. There was paid out for pensions during the year $63,797,831. The Acting Secretary of War has received a dispatch from the Indian Agent at the San Carlos Agency stating that the removal of the Warm Spring and Chiricahua Indians is a cause of rejoicing to the Indians left there, who are relieved of their fears of attack, and are afforded better opportunity for acquiring habits of industry. Late information received at the National Agricultural Department regarding the cenditiou of hogs is that in Illinois and Indiana cholera prevails generally. In the former State heavy losses are reported in several eountios. In Ohio and Michigan the condition of tho animals is fair. In some parts of Wisconsin farmers are afraid to keep hogs on account of cholera, and reports from lowa aro of a similar character in some cases. Cholera, pink-eye and measles aro reported from Missouri, and in Nebraska tho condition is considerably below the average. Kansas and Kentucky hogs are generally in good condition.